Django RedirectView that takes an argument

Question

Need a view that takes an idea from the context and returns redirect url.

This code works fine:

class FooView(RedirectView):
    def get(self, request, id, *args, **kwargs):
        ...
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('foo_space:foo', urlconf='bar.system.urls'))

• In this case is there any reason to use RecirectView at all (while not View)?
• May be there is more appripriate way to do it? Eg using get_redirect_url?

Answer 1

Definitely worthwhile. Check out what RedirectView does. For one, it redirects all methods by default PUT , POST , HEAD etc. while View would throw a 405 for everything but get

And definitely override get_redirect_url to take advantage of the above.

It could be simpler via setting the pattern_name attribute only, but it looks like you need the urlconf kwarg as well so this method may not work.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/class-based-views/base/#django.views.generic.base.RedirectView.pattern_name